Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
and when the guest returns he finds barber

shop where he thought he left barroom. It is very rare now that we see 8 United States Senator shaking two-year-old Mann primo hair trunk up three flights of stairs to Men, as well as hotels and hotel soap, have changed. Where once cake of soap would only last few weeks, science has come in and perfected 8 style of pink soap, favored with vanilla, that will last for years, and new slippery-elm towel that is absolutely inn previous to moisture. Hand in hand, this soap and towel go gayly down the corridors of time, welcoming the coming and speeding the parting guest, jumping deftly out of the
 hands of the aristocracy into the hands of
 receiver, but always calm, smooth and lsth- erless.
 Nature did not fit me to be the successful guest at hotel. I can see why 1t is so. I do not know how to impress hotel. I
 think all the way up from the depot, as I change hands with my hot-handled and
 heavy bag, how I will stride up to the coun ter and ask for the room that is generally
 given to MT. Blaine, but when get there
 fall up against cold wave, step back into
 large india rubber cuspadore, and my over
 taxed valise bursts open. While the porter
 and gather up my collars, and gently press
 them in with our feet, the clerk decides that
 he hasn't got such 8 room as I would want. A great many droll characters and bright,
 shrewd men are met with among hotel pro- prietors wherever you 80. f'The Fat Con tributor" was featuring once in the State of Kentucky, and had occasion to take dinner at @ six-bit hotel After the meal MT. Gris-
 wold stepped up to the counter. took out g
 bale of banknotes, which he had received for his lecture the evening before, and asked what might be the damage.
 "Three dollars" said the blue grass gen- tleman, who had buttoned his collar with ten-penny nail while he looked at "Gris' with pained expression.
 
 here week for three dollars. The whole house didn't cost more than forty or forty five dollars. Whats your idea in charging me three dollars for wad of hominy and a piece of parched pork?"
 sWell, sir," said the urbane landlord, as he put out the fire at a distance of twenty feet by emptying his saliYary surplus on it, 1T need the moneyi" = The frankness and open, candid manner of the man won Mir. Griswold, and he asked him if he thought three dollars would be enough. The landlord said he could get along with that Then Griswo1d opened his valise and took out large brunette bottle of iniment marked "For external use." He passed it over to the landlord and told him that he would find this stuff worked as we'll on the inside as it did on the outside. In 8 few moments the liniment of the ''Fat Con- tributor' and the linaments of the landlord had merged into each other, and friendly feeling sprang up between the two men which time has never effaced. I have often thought of this and wondered why it is that ! hotel men are not more open and cordial | with their guests. Many a time I have paid large bill grudgingly when I would have ! done it cheerfully if the landlord had told me he was in need.
 had intended to speak at some length on the new rope law, by which every man is | made his own vigilance committee, but feel ! that am already encroaching on the adver-
 Using space, and so will have to omit it.. In conclusion I will say that the American 1 hotels are far preferable to those we have in Paris in many ways. and not only out-
 strip those of England and the continent, even as 8 corps de ballet outstrips a to- began club, but they seem to excel and everlastingly knock the ancient hotels of Carthage, Rome and Tie Siding silly.